Words that rhyme with culicid

v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit] 2: keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid]

n 1: a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines 2: a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region [syn: power system, power grid, grid] 3: a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material [syn: grid, storage-battery grid] 4: an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube [syn: grid, control grid] 5: a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat [syn: grid, gridiron]

n 1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: Idaho, Gem State, ID] 2: a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in" [syn: ID, I.D.] 3: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity

n 1: the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: British pound, pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid] 2: something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises [syn: quid pro quo, quid] 3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad]

n 1: (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food [syn: squid, calamari, calamary] 2: widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins

n 1: the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world [syn: Criminal Investigation Command, CID]

n 1: the capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum [syn: Madrid, capital of Spain, Spanish capital]

adj 1: slightly sour to the taste

n 1: any acid that contains oxygen [syn: oxyacid, oxygen acid]

n 1: small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter